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RE: GO Transit - danbrotherston - 01-15-2023
So Apparently Phil Verster, CEO of Metrolinx has received a ~700% raise in 5 years since DoFo has taken power.
In return we've seen delays, cancellations, and other mediocre performance.
Honestly...it's real easy to get super cynical when you see this bullshit happen constantly.
https://twitter.com/jennyleeshee/status/1613910619421384704
RE: GO Transit - taylortbb - 01-15-2023
(01-15-2023, 09:09 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: So Apparently Phil Verster, CEO of Metrolinx has received a ~700% raise in 5 years since DoFo has taken power.
Obviously misinterpreting data to come up with a hyperbolic summary (700%) doesn't help your point. The 2018 line must be a partial year or similar, there's no way CEO of Metrolinx has ever been a $100k job, nor should it be.
It's quite possible he's overpaid, and the jump since 2020 is quite dramatic on its own without resorting to exaggeration.
RE: GO Transit - danbrotherston - 01-15-2023
(01-15-2023, 01:23 PM)taylortbb Wrote:(01-15-2023, 09:09 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: So Apparently Phil Verster, CEO of Metrolinx has received a ~700% raise in 5 years since DoFo has taken power.
Obviously misinterpreting data to come up with a hyperbolic summary (700%) doesn't help your point. The 2018 line must be a partial year or similar, there's no way CEO of Metrolinx has ever been a $100k job, nor should it be.
It's quite possible he's overpaid, and the jump since 2020 is quite dramatic on its own without resorting to exaggeration.
Yes, apparently the ~100k year is a partial for 2017 when he was hired (good job Ontario sunshine list data).
But yes, I find the ~50% pay raise kinda of offensive. No way anyone else at Metrolinx got those raises, and I feel like most of them did more to improve the company than he did.
RE: GO Transit - Bytor - 01-15-2023
(01-15-2023, 01:23 PM)taylortbb Wrote:(01-15-2023, 09:09 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: So Apparently Phil Verster, CEO of Metrolinx has received a ~700% raise in 5 years since DoFo has taken power.
Obviously misinterpreting data to come up with a hyperbolic summary (700%) doesn't help your point. The 2018 line must be a partial year or similar, there's no way CEO of Metrolinx has ever been a $100k job, nor should it be.
It's quite possible he's overpaid, and the jump since 2020 is quite dramatic on its own without resorting to exaggeration.
Yeah, something is off about that table. Verster was appointed president & CEO October 1st, 2017, so that 2018 salary has to be an error or only partial compensation.
RE: GO Transit - nms - 01-16-2023
Any idea how that compensation might compare with other similarly sized and publicly owned/operated transit agencies (or other similar sized Crown corporations) makes? Did the previous CEOs have similar jumps in pay, perhaps tied to performance factors that the public isn't privy to?
RE: GO Transit - Chris - 01-17-2023
Thanks to the person that already archived this Record article.
How close is two-way, all-day GO train service between Kitchener and Toronto?
Work continues incrementally on infrastructure to provide service that previous Liberal government promised would be running by 2024
https://archive.ph/aadUm
RE: GO Transit - the_conestoga_guy - 01-17-2023
(01-17-2023, 10:21 AM)Chris Wrote: Thanks to the person that already archived this Record article.
How close is two-way, all-day GO train service between Kitchener and Toronto?
Work continues incrementally on infrastructure to provide service that previous Liberal government promised would be running by 2024
https://archive.ph/aadUm
"Regional spokesperson Lynsey Slupeiks said the region provide an update on the hub in a report is released, possibly as early as February."
Grammar aside, this quote gives me some optimism that some progress is still being made on the new central terminal.
RE: GO Transit - Bytor - 01-17-2023
(01-17-2023, 10:21 AM)Chris Wrote: Thanks to the person that already archived this Record article.
How close is two-way, all-day GO train service between Kitchener and Toronto?
Work continues incrementally on infrastructure to provide service that previous Liberal government promised would be running by 2024
https://archive.ph/aadUm
They still need to add extra tracks to the bottleneck owned by CN between Bramalea and Georgetown, but in the past 5 years since binning the rail bypass there has been no word from the Ford Government on any new tracks being added through there. Ford & Co. also said in 2018 that they would get #2WADGO to Kitchener done "sooner" than what the Liberals had promised.
RE: GO Transit - KevinL - 02-09-2023
Some interesting regulatory complications have been revealed by the 2019 Lancaster incident.
A GO train seriously injured an adult and child in Kitchener in 2019. Now a safety board says Ontario does not effectively monitor and address safety of provincial railways
RE: GO Transit - KevinT - 02-10-2023
I'm of two minds about that article. It would not surprise me at all that there are regulatory gaps in the system, but it seems that the sheer neglect/stupidity on display by the child's guardian is now being completely overlooked.
RE: GO Transit - ijmorlan - 02-10-2023
(02-10-2023, 12:34 PM)KevinT Wrote: I'm of two minds about that article. It would not surprise me at all that there are regulatory gaps in the system, but it seems that the sheer neglect/stupidity on display by the child's guardian is now being completely overlooked.
Right, I would go so far as to say that just because somebody was injured and/or killed, it doesn’t necessarily indicate a problem with whatever system is under discussion. If the proximate cause of the incident was sufficiently unusual and irresponsible behaviour, then it’s just a natural consequence.
RE: GO Transit - Acitta - 02-10-2023
The CTV article has illustrations of the incident. Railway safety highlighted after 2019 incident where woman and child were hit by Go train
The lack of a train whistle meant that the pedestrians were unaware of the second train.
RE: GO Transit - danbrotherston - 02-10-2023
Can you imagine if we put that much thought and effort into eliminating car crashes?
What a world that would be.
RE: GO Transit - tomh009 - 02-10-2023
(02-10-2023, 04:57 PM)Acitta Wrote: The CTV article has illustrations of the incident. Railway safety highlighted after 2019 incident where woman and child were hit by Go train
The lack of a train whistle meant that the pedestrians were unaware of the second train.
It's true. But with the gates down, lights flashing and bells sounding, that does indicate some level of danger in crossing those tracks.
RE: GO Transit - ijmorlan - 02-10-2023
(02-10-2023, 06:12 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(02-10-2023, 04:57 PM)Acitta Wrote: The CTV article has illustrations of the incident. Railway safety highlighted after 2019 incident where woman and child were hit by Go train
The lack of a train whistle meant that the pedestrians were unaware of the second train.
It's true. But with the gates down, lights flashing and bells sounding, that does indicate some level of danger in crossing those tracks.
Not to mention the signs indicating multiple tracks. If I remember correctly, the video shows behaviour that is plainly irresponsible and obviously self-destructive, and we should not be looking for excuses to push the responsibility anywhere other than where it belongs, on the person who ignored an extensive installation of safety equipment working properly to warn them away from the area.